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Third Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

A Benefit for Poets House with Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty and Grace Paley

Date and Time:

June 22, 1998 - 6:30PM

Event Location:

Brooklyn Bridge

"Discover the poetry “under your boot-soles” and join us in celebrating the confluence of poetry, water and the magnificent New York City skyline. Hear the words of Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore and Walt Whitman brought to life by Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty and Grace Paley who will join us for this year’s annual bridge crossing. The walk includes a Buffet Supper and poetry readings at City Hall Park, on the Bridge and at the Fulton Ferry Landing. Time Out New York called our first poetry walk an event that “could make you fall in love with New York all over again.” Don’t miss what is becoming a New York tradition.